The first iPhone could have omitted the home button entirely, rather than waiting until the tenth generation. This would have opened up more space inside the device for higher-quality hardware or a larger battery. But the home button was an important training exercise for a phone that was more complex and more powerful than consumers were used to. Like closing a flip phone, it was a safe, easy, and tactile way to "restart" an iPhone if the user got confused or tapped the wrong app. It took a decade for consumers to become comfortable with not having a dedicated home button. This idea is key. Over time, consumers become more familiar with advanced technology and are therefore better able to adopt further advances - some of which may have been possible long ago!
Just as consumers shifted to new ways of thinking, so did belarus mobile database industries. Over the past 20 years, nearly every industry has hired, reorganized, and reoriented around mobile workflows, products, or lines of business. This shift is as significant as any hardware or software innovation—and in turn creates the business case for subsequent innovations.
Defining the Metaverse
This post is the preface to my 9-part and 33,000-word series on the Metaverse, a term I have yet to mention, let alone describe.
Before I do, it’s important to me to provide the context and evolutionary path of technologies like “electricity” and “mobile internet.” Hopefully it offers a few lessons. First, the diffusion of these technologies has fundamentally changed human culture, from where we live to how we work, what we make, what we buy, how, and from whom. Second, these “revolutions” or “transformations” actually rely on a host of different, secondary innovations and inventions that build on and drive each other. Third, even the most detailed understanding of these emerging technologies does not make clear which specific secondary innovations and inventions they will need to achieve mass adoption and change the world. And how they will change the world is almost completely unknowable.